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Monday, August 07, 2017

Federal employees step up defiance of Trump

Government employees are growing increasingly willing to criticize or defy the White House and President Trump’s top appointees.

A handful of current and former career staffers in the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office.

The growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the White House’s legislative agenda has stalled in Congress and Trump turns to his Cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. It also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to Trump has, at times, been rooted in deep opposition to the president’s agenda.

“From our point of view, it’s kind of obvious,” said Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), when asked about staffers’ growing pushback.

“You have Donald Trump, who ran and said he would drain the swamp, meaning them.”

Fire them, 75% of them are not needed anyway. Trump is making private sector jobs come back, so it's not like they'll be without work. They just won't be sucking the tit anymore and actually producing something!

Why are they still there? There are ways to fire those who are disloyal and causing trouble on the job. Think about how long we would be employed if we made trouble for the boss! Federal employees should live by the same standards as we have to, including same health insurance forced on us.

Wow. I went to sleep in the US and woke up in Russia. So what, we no longer have the right to disagree with the government and doing so costs you your livelihood?Pretty sure If you check your history you'll find that's why the forefathers fled another country. How easily you people will sell yourselves out for a free campaign hat.